X-CD-Roast: CD Writer Software

Mr. Niederreiter tells us all about his graphical user interface for writing data to a CD-ROM.

The Future

There you have the rudimentary basics of X-CD-Roast. Keep in
mind that X-CD-Roast is just a front end to a lot of utilities, and
at this time, is quite limited compared with the command-line
interface of those utilities. I will be developing new versions to
add new features such as multi-session on most writers, bootable
CD-support, mastering without image-creation on a hard disk and
more. Please also check out cdrecord, which can be found at
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord. It is command-line based,
but supports a lot of CD writers. A future version of X-CD-Roast
will use cdrecord instead of the older cdwrite.

For more information about CD writing under Linux, consult
the documentation for X-CD-Roast, cdwrite, mkisofs and cdda2wav. I
thank all of the great people who put a lot of effort into coding
the basic utilities X-CD-Roast uses. Keep up the good work.

An older version of this article was first published in the
German language Linux Magazine, Issue 11,
November 1996.

Thomas Niederreiter
(tn@mailserv.rz.fh-muenchen.de)
recently finished his study
of computer science at the Fachhochschule Munich and now works as
an employee in the computer center of that facility.